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June 26
drefile: an automatic, chronological file organizer Felt like releasing some software today. This is a quick tool I wrote for myself several months back + have come to rely on it to automatically keep my Desktop cleared + files organized. Every few minutes drefile copies all files on your Desktop to a folder such as ~/Documents/2009-06-June/26-Friday, prepending a timestamp (like 20090626.1310) to the filename. Use: Put files on your Desktop, and in a few minutes they will be “drefiled” Use the “Today” alias on your Desktop to go to today’s folder Type dday to go to today’s directory Type dmonth to go to this month’s directory Type drefile file to manually timestamp + move a file It requires OS X, MacPorts, and RubyGems. If you don’t know what that means you may still find this useful but will need a programmer friend to install it for you.

drefile: an automatic, chronological file organizer

Felt like releasing some software today. This is a quick tool I wrote for myself several months back + have come to rely on it to automatically keep my Desktop cleared + files organized.

Every few minutes drefile copies all files on your Desktop to a folder such as ~/Documents/2009-06-June/26-Friday, prepending a timestamp (like 20090626.1310) to the filename. Use:

  1. Put files on your Desktop, and in a few minutes they will be “drefiled”
  2. Use the “Today” alias on your Desktop to go to today’s folder
  3. Type dday to go to today’s directory
  4. Type dmonth to go to this month’s directory
  5. Type drefile file to manually timestamp + move a file

It requires OS X, MacPorts, and RubyGems. If you don’t know what that means you may still find this useful but will need a programmer friend to install it for you.